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300 NOTES TO PAGES 71-73 54. Cited in Krug, Die Organisation des Kampfes, p. 21. A November 1941 arti cle in the Berliner Borsenzeitung predicted that the sheer "idealism" of the Third Reich would result in a lowering of German cancer rates; see "Nationalsozialismus schutzt vor Krebs," Internationales Arztliches Bulletin 2 (1935): 17-18. 55. Auler met with Goebbels on February 15,1941; the propaganda minister called his work "truly wonderful." Education minister Bernhard Rust awarded him an additional 7,000 RM; see Goebbels's Tagebiicher, p. 504. It is not yet clear what this money was used for. It may have gone to defray some of the costs of the antiquackery film Auler was helping to make (Jeder Achte); this is plausible, since support of this sort was one of the primary tasks of Goebbels's ministry. 56. Chi genotoxic contraceptives, see Karl E. Fecht, "Uber die Keimschadigung durch chemische Schwangerschaftsverhutungsmittel," Volk und Basse 10 (1935): 215-17. Chapter 4 Occupational Carcinogenesis 1. Two of the best early reviews are Ludwig Teleky, "Der berufliche Lungenkrebs," Acta Unio Intemationalis Contra Cancrum 3 (1938): 253-73, and Wil helm Hueper's Occupational Tumors. The best history of German occupational cancer is Wolfgang Hien's Chemische Industrie. For the history of German occu pational health and safety more generally, see Franz Koelsch, Beitrdge zur Geschichte der Arbeitsmedizin (Munich: Bayerischer Landesarztekammer, 1967); also Alfons Labisch, "Social History of Occupational Medicine and of Factory Health Service in the Federal Republic of Germany," and Dietrich Milles, "From Workers' Diseases to Occupational Diseases: The Impact of Experts' Concepts on Workers' Attitudes," both in The Social History of Occupational Health, ed. Paul Weindling (London: Croom Helm, 1985), pp. 32-51 and 55-77. 2. Karl-Heinz Karbe, "Das nationalsozialistische Betriebsarztsystem wahrend des Zweiten Weltkrieges--ein Instrument arbeitsmedizinischer Praxis," in Medizin fur den Stoat--Medizin fur den Krieg: Aspekte zwischen 1914 und 1945, ed. Rolf Winau and Heinz Miiller-Dietz (Husum: Matthiesen, 1994). 3. Heinz von Pein, "Uber die Ursachen der chronischen Arsenvergiftung der Weinbauem," Medizinische Klinik 37 (1941): 293-95. 4. For overviews, see Hueper's Occupational Tumors; Martin Staemmler, "Beruf und Krebs," Miinchener medizinische Wochenschrift 85 (1938): 121-25; Otto Teutschlaender, "Die Berufskrebse mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung ihrer Verhutung und der Unfallgesetzgebung," Medizinische Welt 11 (1937): 1267-72; and Franz Koelsch, "Krebs und Beruf," Monatsschrift fur Krebsbekampfung 5 (1937): 7-12. 5. Fischer-Wasels, "Bekampfung der Krebskrankheit," p. 94. Officially, there were only about twelve occupational cancers registered with German health authorities every year--mostly tar cancers, bladder cancers of dye workers, lung cancers among chromium workers, and X-ray skin cancers. The true number, however, as even Nazi health authorities recognized, must have been many times higher (Staemmler, "Beruf und Krebs," p. 122). NOTES TO PAGES 74-81 301 6. P.E.R., "Arbeit als sittliche Pflicht," Volksgesundheit 1 (1936): 239; see also pp. 267-271. 7. Abteilung Volksgesundheit, "Der offentliche Gesundheitsdienst im Deutschen Reiche 1937," Offentlicher Gesundheitsdienst 4 (1938): 161-86. 8. Hans Reiter, "Genussgifte und Leistung," Reichs-Gesundheitsblatt 14 (1939): 187. 9. Gine Eisner, "Die Entwicklung von Arbeitsmedizin und Arbeitsschutzpo- litik nach 1933," in Arbeitsschutz und Umweltgeschichte, ed. Hamburger Stiftung (Cologne: Volksblatt, 1990), p. 90. 10. Martin Gumpert, Heil Hunger! Health under Hitler (New York: Alliance Book Corp., 1940), pp. 12-13 and 23. In his diary on May 12, 1941, Joseph Goebbels mentioned a recent mining accident in Neurode, south of Breslau in Upper Silesia, near the Czech border, that suffocated 189 miners (Tagebiicher, p. 636). 11. For a sampling, see Ernst W. Baader, "Kohlenoxyd-Basedow," Archivfiir Gewerbepathologie und Gewerbehygiene 7 (1936): 227-34; Willy Matthes, "Zur Staubbeseitigung in der Textilindustrie," Zentralblatt fiir Gewerbehygiene, N.F. 15 (1938): 200-201; Ludwig Teissl, "Strahlenschutz in gewerblichen Radiumbetrieben," Zentralblatt fiir Gewerbehygiene N.F., 15 (1938): 89-91. 12. Walther Liese, "'Gute Luft' als raumhygienische Forderung in Arbeitsraumen," Gesundheitsingenieur 60 (1937): 374-80. 13. Articles on occupational safety and health also appeared in journals like Bauwelt, the Rundschau Technischer Arbeit, and Die Chemische Industrie. The Monatsschrift fiir Krebsbekdmpfung and the Zeitschrift fiir Krebsforschung often discussed occupational cancers, as did the two major journals devoted to radi ation therapy: Strahlentherapie and Radiologische Rundschau: Rontgen, Radium, Licht. Journals such as Feuerpotizei, the Zeitschrift des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure, and Die Pressluftindustrie treated health and safety topics in specific professions, and further coverage can be found in public health journals such as Offentlicher Gesundheitsdienst. There were also two major series devoted to occupational health: the Schriften aus dem Gesamtgebiet der Gewerbehygiene and Arbeitsmedizin: Abhandlungen iiber Berufskrankheiten und deren Verhutung, pub lished before and after the war by J. A. Barth of Leipzig. 14. Dietrich Milles, "Tendenzen und Konsequenzen. Arbeit und Krankheit under dem Einfluss nationalsozialistischer Sozialpolitik," in Berufsarbeil und Krankheit, ed. Dietrich Milles and Rainer Muller (Frankfurt: Campus, 1985), pp. 124-25. 15. Karl Heinz Roth, "Public Health--Nazi Style: Gesundheitspolitische Kontroversen in der NS-Diktatur (1935-1944)," 1999 2 (1995): 2. 16. On high-performance medicine, see Sepp Graessner, Leistungsmedizin wahrend des Nationalsozialismus (Hamburg: Med. diss., 1990). 17. Gumpert, Heil Hunger!, pp. 23-28. 18. rsHliP Hennes, Arbeitsschdden der Frau durch Fabrikarbeit (Freiburg: Med. diss., 1941). 19. Trials of War Criminals, 8:1173. 20. Reichsarbeitsblatt 1 (1944): 22.